Critical Systems Thinking as a Strategic Approach
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Critical Systems Thinking as a Strategic Approach
Systems thinking enables us to engage complex problems more effectively, steering us away from short-sighted solutions that may work in the short-term but ultimately backfire and make things worse in the long run.
Ryan Mohr • Making systems more approachable
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Strategic thinking, in its purest form, is the process of considering “what could be true.” Strategy is the art of the possible. What new mental model would have to be invented for this to work? What if people moved from the way it is, to a new, different way? What if a new outcome (an outcome we haven’t considered before) was possible?
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Management systems have been designed to provide reliability and efficiency, not adaptability and agility. Many of the tools and practices of modern management are geared towards solving problems and eliminating deviations in processes, behaviors, and practices. Because of this framework, management training and leadership development is often focu... See more
Kotter • Why Change Capability Is The Most Important Missing Competency For Today’s Leaders
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Strategic thinking also addresses core dilemmas. Inevitably, one of the factors that makes significant change difficult is conflict among competing goals and norms:
Art Kleiner • The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: Strategies for Building a Learning Organization
This approach takes strategy out of the realm of being a periodic (“Once every X years”) exercise, and builds strategic thinking (“How can we improve from where we are”) into the regular operations of the firm. It is a system to institutionalize continuous improvement, and create the “constantly learning organization.”
David H. Maister • Managing The Professional Service Firm
This approach takes strategy out of the realm of being a periodic (“Once every X years”) exercise, and builds strategic thinking (“How can we improve from where we are”) into the regular operations of the firm. It is a system to institutionalize continuous improvement, and create the “constantly learning organization.”
David H. Maister • Managing The Professional Service Firm
This approach takes strategy out of the realm of being a periodic (“Once every X years”) exercise, and builds strategic thinking (“How can we improve from where we are”) into the regular operations of the firm. It is a system to institutionalize continuous improvement, and create the “constantly learning organization.”